Morning journal and courier., 1887-02-11
ooNcREeAr,oNa1oH oHURcHEs.

Radical Change in Their Organiza-
 tiOn Proposed i'm a Bill at Hartford
 The Hearing Before the Committee
 Yesterday-NO Secret Ballot RecOm-
 mended by the Judic1ary-Other Como
 mittee Meetings and the Subjects
 Heard-A New Labor Bill Which
 Says Employers Shall Pay Interest on
 Retained Wages.
 HARTFORD, Feb. 10.
 Special to the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 Not much business was done in the House or the Senate to-day. The time they were in session was mostly spent in discussion. The Barkhamstead contested election case took up the greater part of the time of the mem- bers of the House. The Senators also lounged in the Senate chamber and talked for half an hour or more and had consider able fun over the question whether the State should pay for the one hundred and fifty extra copies of the Connecticut State regis ters to be distributed among the Senators constituents. After much discussion an amendment was made making the number two hundred. and it finally succeeded in passing. The Senators will not assemble again until next Tuesday. Before the commit tees but little business was transacted. The committee On interpretations had the largest and perhaps the most important session. This committee considered House bill No. "2," providing for the inc orporation of Con- gregational churches instead Of societies. It met in the ante-room of the Senate chamber and was largely attended by Con- gregational ministers and laymen from all parts of the State The Rev. Edward An zE H. l, first to be heard. MT. Anderson argued that the society corporations had stood the test for years, were uniform throughout the country, and were intended to retain hold on the outside irreligious public as well as to give pew renters who were not church members a proper share in church material control. Rev. Mir. Moore, of Hartford, favored the bill and spoke at length on it. George F.. Smith, of Plainville, didn't think the meas ures provided in the bill wise ones; he thought the most cons ervative members of the church were also members of the society. Rev. Mir. Hollister of Hartford, M. E. Bart : lett Attorney Henry c. Robinson, Horace Cornwall of Hartford, Rev. Dr. Walker of Hartford and Henry L. Parrott of Bridge port were among those who were heard on the matter. The hearing was prolonged one. There were many points of interest brought out in the hearing. There is much opposition being brought to bear on the bill.
 The committee on labor held another of their protracted hearings to-day. Of all the committees this committee is working the hardest and the most faithfully. The bills considered to-day were House bills 42 and 125, providing for inspection of factories for the better protection of life and health of workmen, and adjourned hearings on Senate bill and House bills 43 and 127, exempting wages from atttach- ment, and Senate bills 10, 16 and g and House bills 69 and 126 for weekly pay ments The most interesting part of the hearing was when L.M. Slade, of Bridgeport, introduced and advocated 8 bill which is of different caste to that of most labor bills. It provides that the employer who shall with hold payment for labor performed during the week beyond NJ Jnday immediately following the week within which such labor was per formed (computing each week by itselD shall in addition to the price of the labor so per formed each week pay to the person entitled to recover pay therefor the additional sum of five cents on each dollar and the fractional part thereof for every week so long each weeks earnings shall remain unpaid a premium or compensation for the deten- tion and use of the money earned each week as aforesaid. It also provides that when money earned by labor shall be attached in the hands of an employer for the debt of an employe to whom the money is or may be due, tce premium mentioned in the preceding section shall cease and termi- nate during the pendency of such proceed ings. MT. Slade talked very forcibly and logically for half an hour and was listened to with much attention. The gentleman has appeared before committees in the past and said he had been working hard on the matter of having the laborer remunerated. He didn't think weekly payment could be enforced. The manufacturer cannot be con- pelled to pay his hire at the end ot every sixth day. I have finally come to the con clusion, said MT. Slade, that the only thing that will or can be made of practical value is the bill have introduced. Let the man. ufacturer who is on the make know that he will be obliged to pay interest each week on promptly. He thought legislation could be so altered and made to fit the needs.
 The judiciary committee met and the re- port of the committee on ballot boxes was listened to. The committee reported that they had examined number, all of which calculated to prevent frauds, and especially the stufing of ballot boxes. Only one of the ones considered had been tested, however, the Standard, which is in use in Massachu- setts and approved by that State, 1t having proved very successful. The committee did not recommend any, however. House bill 30, for stenographers in Common Pleas, Dis trict and City courts, was also heard. House bill 31, concerning stenographers in New Ha- ven county Common Pleas court, had short hearing, but no action was taken.
 The hearing on the bill concerning the trip of the Second regiment to Washington, which was to have occurred before the com mittee on military affairs this afternoon, was postponed until next week. House joint resolution 103, loaning camp equipages to thorizing the purchase of histories of Con necticut regiments, were heard before this committee.
 The county commissioners hearing was we'll attended to-day. The meeting was for the purpose of hearing charges relative to illegal taking of fees, etc., by county com missioners. It will be remem bered that a special committee was appointed to investi- ate such charges as might he made con corning illegal acts of the com missioners. The chairman asked for charges against Hartford county. Capt.J K. Williams, of Hartford, said he had no charges to make, but he would like to know if the com for the filing of the bond and the issuance of the license. He questioned the reason for the registration of license by the county clerk, but he supposed. as many oth CTS have done, these are perquisites estab lished by custom. Chairman Bassett stated that the committee would hear only specified charges. The matter referred to is proper one to be investigated provided charges are submitted in writing. No other charges against Hartford county were made and Fairfield and New Haven counties were called up. No one appeared against either of these counties. Charges asked for against Litchfield, New London. Windham and Middlesex counties but brought no re- sponse. When Holland county Was reached Mir. P. G. Tripp, of Rockville, said that he had made a record of the charges made in his county for the last six years. For 1881 the charge for giving licenses to liquor deal CTS and druggists was s1.50; 1882, $1. 50; 1883, $2 50; in 1884 no charge, town being "no li cense;" 1855, g, and in 1886 $2, of which $1 50 was subsequently, returned, the com missioneEs saying that it did not belong to them. He was given a receipt for his $1 50, and other dealers, fifteen or twenty in num- Der, received similar receipts. He made affidavit embodying these allegations and signed it. Captain Williams at this point